Windows cannot parse the unattend answer file's <DiskConfiguration> setting

Tuesday, May 08, 2012 8:06 AM

Hi,

I am using Windows Deployment Services, and WAIK to create an unattend file.

I have set in WDS under Server Name - Client - Unattend file - Enable unattended installation and choosed the unattend.xml for x64 architecture.

Clients boot fine and i am able to select the image i want to install, but when the deploy process starts i receive the following error:

"Windows cannot parse the unattend answer file's <DiskConfiguration> setting."

I have read here that it is because it needs a system partition so i have changed my unattend file accordingly but still no joy. Here is the file, what am i missing?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend">
    <settings pass="windowsPE">
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core-WinPE" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
            <SetupUILanguage>
                <UILanguage>en-US</UILanguage>
            </SetupUILanguage>
            <InputLocale>en-US</InputLocale>
            <SystemLocale>en-US</SystemLocale>
            <UILanguage>en-US</UILanguage>
            <UILanguageFallback>en-US</UILanguageFallback>
            <UserLocale>en-US</UserLocale>
        </component>
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Setup" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
            <DiskConfiguration>
                <Disk wcm:action="add">
                    <CreatePartitions>
                        <CreatePartition wcm:action="add">
                            <Order>2</Order>
                            <Extend>true</Extend>
                            <Type>Primary</Type>
                        </CreatePartition>
                        <CreatePartition wcm:action="add">
                            <Order>1</Order>
                            <Size>100</Size>
                            <Type>Primary</Type>
                        </CreatePartition>
                    </CreatePartitions>
                    <ModifyPartitions>
                        <ModifyPartition wcm:action="add">
                            <Active>true</Active>
                            <Format>NTFS</Format>
                            <Label>SYSTEM</Label>
                            <Order>1</Order>
                            <PartitionID>1</PartitionID>
                            <TypeID />
                        </ModifyPartition>
                        <ModifyPartition wcm:action="add">
                            <Format>NTFS</Format>
                            <Label>WINDOWS</Label>
                            <Letter>C</Letter>
                            <Order>2</Order>
                            <PartitionID>2</PartitionID>
                        </ModifyPartition>
                    </ModifyPartitions>
                    <WillWipeDisk>true</WillWipeDisk>
                    <DiskID>0</DiskID>
                </Disk>
                <WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI>
            </DiskConfiguration>
            <ImageInstall>
                <OSImage>
                    <InstallTo>
                        <DiskID>0</DiskID>
                        <PartitionID>2</PartitionID>
                    </InstallTo>
                    <InstallToAvailablePartition>true</InstallToAvailablePartition>
                    <WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI>
                </OSImage>
            </ImageInstall>
            <UserData>
                <ProductKey>
                    <WillShowUI>Never</WillShowUI>
                </ProductKey>
                <AcceptEula>true</AcceptEula>
                <FullName>ACME International</FullName>
                <Organization>ACME International</Organization>
            </UserData>
            <WindowsDeploymentServices>
                <Login>
                    <Credentials>
                        <Domain>CORP</Domain>
                      <Password>Pass##word@!</Password>
                        <Username>deploy</Username>
                    </Credentials>
                </Login>
            </WindowsDeploymentServices>
            <EnableFirewall>false</EnableFirewall>
            <EnableNetwork>true</EnableNetwork>
        </component>
    </settings>
    <cpi:offlineImage cpi:source="wim://nlamssv11/reminst/distributionshare/laptops_win7.wim#Laptops_Win7" xmlns:cpi="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:cpi" />
</unattend>

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Tuesday, May 08, 2012 8:55 AM

Hi,

try again with this xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend">
    <settings pass="windowsPE">
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core-WinPE" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
            <SetupUILanguage>
                <UILanguage>en-US</UILanguage>
            </SetupUILanguage>
            <InputLocale>en-US</InputLocale>
            <SystemLocale>en-US</SystemLocale>
            <UILanguage>en-US</UILanguage>
            <UILanguageFallback>en-US</UILanguageFallback>
            <UserLocale>en-US</UserLocale>
        </component>
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Setup" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
 <DiskConfiguration>
   <WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI>
   <Disk>
      <DiskID>0</DiskID>
      <WillWipeDisk>true</WillWipeDisk>
      <CreatePartitions>
         <CreatePartition>
            <Order>1</Order>
            <Type>Primary</Type>
            <Size>100</Size>
         </CreatePartition>
         <CreatePartition>
            <Order>2</Order>
            <Type>Primary</Type>
            <Extend>true</Extend>
         </CreatePartition>
      </CreatePartitions>
      <ModifyPartitions>
         <ModifyPartition>
            <Order>1</Order>
            <PartitionID>1</PartitionID>
            <Format>NTFS</Format>
            <Label>System</Label>
         </ModifyPartition>
         <ModifyPartition>
            <Order>2</Order>
            <PartitionID>2</PartitionID>
            <Format>NTFS</Format>
            <Label>Windows</Label>
         </ModifyPartition>
      </ModifyPartitions>
   </Disk>
 </DiskConfiguration>
            <ImageInstall>
                <OSImage>
                    <InstallTo>
                        <DiskID>0</DiskID>
                        <PartitionID>2</PartitionID>
                    </InstallTo>
                    <WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI>
                </OSImage>
            </ImageInstall>
            <UserData>
                <ProductKey>
                    <WillShowUI>Never</WillShowUI>
                </ProductKey>
                <AcceptEula>true</AcceptEula>
                <FullName>ACME International</FullName>
                <Organization>ACME International</Organization>
            </UserData>
            <WindowsDeploymentServices>
                <Login>
                    <Credentials>
                        <Domain>CORP</Domain>
                      <Password>Pass##word@!</Password>
                        <Username>deploy</Username>
                    </Credentials>
                </Login>
            </WindowsDeploymentServices>
            <EnableFirewall>false</EnableFirewall>
            <EnableNetwork>true</EnableNetwork>
        </component>
    </settings>
    <cpi:offlineImage cpi:source="wim://nlamssv11/reminst/distributionshare/laptops_win7.wim#Laptops_Win7" xmlns:cpi="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:cpi" />
</unattend>

Kind regards,

Tim
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Edited by butim Tuesday, May 08, 2012 9:06 AM

Tuesday, May 08, 2012 10:00 AM

Thanks!

I tried with this settings below, it works better but i am still presented with the disk manager and i have to delete old partitions manually, how can i get the old partitions to be removed silently as i already set the wipe option <WillWipeDisk>true</WillWipeDisk> ?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend">
    <settings pass="windowsPE">
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core-WinPE" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
            <SetupUILanguage>
                <UILanguage>en-US</UILanguage>
            </SetupUILanguage>
            <InputLocale>en-US</InputLocale>
            <SystemLocale>en-US</SystemLocale>
            <UILanguage>en-US</UILanguage>
            <UILanguageFallback>en-US</UILanguageFallback>
            <UserLocale>en-US</UserLocale>
        </component>
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Setup" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
            <DiskConfiguration>
                <Disk wcm:action="add">
                    <CreatePartitions>
                        <CreatePartition wcm:action="add">
                            <Order>1</Order>
                            <Size>100</Size>
                            <Type>Primary</Type>
                        </CreatePartition>
                        <CreatePartition wcm:action="add">
                            <Extend>true</Extend>
                            <Order>2</Order>
                            <Type>Primary</Type>
                        </CreatePartition>
                    </CreatePartitions>
                    <ModifyPartitions>
                        <ModifyPartition wcm:action="add">
                            <Active>true</Active>
                            <Format>NTFS</Format>
                            <Label>SYSTEM</Label>
                            <Order>1</Order>
                            <PartitionID>1</PartitionID>
                        </ModifyPartition>
                        <ModifyPartition wcm:action="add">
                            <Format>NTFS</Format>
                            <Label>WINDOWS</Label>
                            <Letter>C</Letter>
                            <Order>2</Order>
                            <PartitionID>2</PartitionID>
                        </ModifyPartition>
                    </ModifyPartitions>
                    <WillWipeDisk>true</WillWipeDisk>
                    <DiskID>0</DiskID>
                </Disk>
                <WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI>
            </DiskConfiguration>
            <ImageInstall>
                <OSImage>
                    <InstallTo>
                        <DiskID>0</DiskID>
                        <PartitionID>2</PartitionID>
                    </InstallTo>
                    <InstallToAvailablePartition>false</InstallToAvailablePartition>
                    <WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI>
                </OSImage>
            </ImageInstall>
            <UserData>
                <ProductKey>
                    <WillShowUI>Never</WillShowUI>
                </ProductKey>
                <AcceptEula>true</AcceptEula>
                <FullName>ACME International</FullName>
                <Organization>ACME International</Organization>
            </UserData>
            <WindowsDeploymentServices>
                <Login>
                    <Credentials>
                        <Domain>CORP</Domain>
                        <Password>pass#word@!</Password>
                        <Username>admin</Username>
                    </Credentials>
                </Login>
            </WindowsDeploymentServices>
            <EnableFirewall>false</EnableFirewall>
            <EnableNetwork>true</EnableNetwork>
        </component>
    </settings>
    <cpi:offlineImage cpi:source="wim://nlamssv11/reminst/distributionshare/laptops_win7.wim#Laptops_Win7" xmlns:cpi="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:cpi" />
</unattend>

Tuesday, May 08, 2012 10:30 AM

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Hi,

if you using WDS did you added the xml AMD64 architecture?

Copy your XML to RemoteInstall\WdsClientUnattend\

In the WDS console right-click at the servername, select Properties.

Go to the Client tab:

Select "Enable unattend installation" and browse to your xml.

What I see in my XML files the amd64 is written in capital letters AMD64.
Kind regards,

Tim
MCITP, MCTS
http://directoryadmin.blogspot.com

This posting is provided 'AS IS' with no warranties or guarantees and confers no rights.
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012 10:39 AM

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I did that. I have set in WDS under Server Name - Client - Unattend file - Enable unattended installation and choosed the unattend.xml for x64 architecture.

The unattend file is read but for some reason the wipe part is not done.
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012 11:50 AM

Hm this is working for me:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend">
    <settings pass="windowsPE">
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Setup" processorArchitecture="AMD64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
            <DiskConfiguration>
                <WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI>
                <Disk wcm:action="add">
                    <CreatePartitions>
                        <CreatePartition wcm:action="add">
                            <Order>1</Order>
                            <Type>Primary</Type>
                            <Extend>true</Extend>
                        </CreatePartition>
                    </CreatePartitions>
                    <ModifyPartitions>
                        <ModifyPartition wcm:action="add">
                            <Active>true</Active>
                            <Format>NTFS</Format>
                            <Label>System</Label>
                            <Letter>C</Letter>
                            <Order>1</Order>
                            <PartitionID>1</PartitionID>
                        </ModifyPartition>
                    </ModifyPartitions>
                    <DiskID>0</DiskID>
                    <WillWipeDisk>true</WillWipeDisk>
                </Disk>
            </DiskConfiguration>
            <WindowsDeploymentServices>
                <Login>
                    <Credentials>
                        <Domain></Domain>
                        <Username></Username>
                        <Password></Password>
                    </Credentials>
                </Login>
                <ImageSelection>
                    <WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI>
                    <InstallImage>
                        <ImageName></ImageName>
                        <ImageGroup></ImageGroup>
                        <FileName></FileName>
                    </InstallImage>
                    <InstallTo>
                        <DiskID>0</DiskID>
                        <PartitionID>1</PartitionID>
                    </InstallTo>
                </ImageSelection>
            </WindowsDeploymentServices>
        </component>
    </settings>
</unattend>

Kind regards,

Tim
MCITP, MCTS
http://directoryadmin.blogspot.com

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Marked As Answer by Leo HuangMicrosoft Contingent Staff, Moderator Thursday, May 24, 2012 3:02 AM

Windows cannot parse the unattend answer file's <DiskConfiguration> setting

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